Flight number record
DL 2221
Delta Air Lines · Nashville to Minneapolis
- Route
- BNA → MSP
- Departs
- 06:00
- Flights
- 365
- Period
- September 2025 to August 2026
Historical statistics for September 2025 to August 2026, not live status. For today’s DL 2221, check with Delta Air Lines.
DL 2221 earns an A. Nearly every flight arrives inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 18 points better than the national rate of 77.3%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs an hour and a half. That rests on 365 flights, with a median arrival 14 minutes early.
Set against the rest of the country, DL 2221's record is 18 points better than the US average of 77.3%. That gap is worth roughly 180 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.
Key figures
On time
95.3%
Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 358 completed flights
Avg delay
95 min
Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights
Cancelled
1.92%
National rate is 1.89%
1 hour+ late
2.0%
National rate is 8.3%
These figures cover 365 flights between September 2025 and August 2026. The median arrival is 14 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.
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Schedule
When DL 2221 flies
DL 2221 is scheduled to leave Nashville (BNA) at 06:00 local time and reach Minneapolis (MSP) at 08:10. That slot held for 302 of the 365 scheduled departures in the data, so the figures below describe one steady operation rather than a number that moved around the clock.
- Departs 06:00302 flights82.7%
- Departs 07:0057 flights15.6%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of scheduled departures at each local time. Times used on fewer than one flight in ten are not listed.
A 06:00 departure sits in the 5am–8am window. Across every US flight scheduled in that window the on-time rate is 89.3%, and DL 2221 runs 6 points better at 95.3%. Early departures usually start with an aircraft that has not flown yet that day, which is most of why the window does well.
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Against the route
DL 2221 next to BNA to MSP
Every carrier on BNA to MSP combined arrived on time 81.2% of the time across 1,776 flights, so DL 2221 is 14 points ahead of it. Delta flew 1,220 flights on the same city pair under all its flight numbers, including this one, and those ran 85.6% on time. Across its whole network Delta Air Lines managed 81.1%, which this flight beats by 14 points.
| Compared with | Flights | On time | Avg delay | Cancelled | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DL 2221 | 365 | 95.3% | 95 min | 1.92% | A |
| All Delta Air Lines on BNA–MSP | 1,220 | 85.6% | 56 min | 1.89% | A |
| All carriers on BNA–MSP | 1,776 | 81.2% | 50 min | 1.63% | B |
| Delta Air Lines, whole network | 1,039,517 | 81.1% | 71 min | 1.74% | B |
Across the year
DL 2221 quarter by quarter
Quarter by quarter DL 2221 held fairly steady: 100.0% in Jul–Sep 2025, 94.4% in Oct–Dec 2025, 94.2% in Jan–Mar 2026, 96.7% in Apr–Jun 2026 and 93.5% in Jul–Sep 2026. A spread of 7 points is about what a sample of this size moves on its own, so the annual figure is a fair summary.
- Jul–Sep 202530 flights100.0%
- Oct–Dec 202592 flights94.4%
- Jan–Mar 202690 flights94.2%
- Apr–Jun 202691 flights96.7%
- Jul–Sep 202662 flights93.5%
Scale runs 85% to 100%.
By weekday, DL 2221 ranged from 92.0% on Monday to 98.1% on Friday. With about 52 flights behind each day, a spread of 6 points is inside normal variation, so the day you fly is not worth changing for this flight.
Arrival by arrival
How late DL 2221 runs when it is late
DL 2221 often beats the schedule: 164 of 358 completed flights, 46%, arrived 15 minutes or more early. The 17 late arrivals split 7 under half an hour, 3 between 30 and 60 minutes, and 7 an hour or more.
- 15+ min early164 flights45.8%
- Within 15 min177 flights49.4%
- 15–29 min late7 flights2.0%
- 30–59 min late3 flights0.8%
- 1–2 hours late3 flights0.8%
- 2+ hours late4 flights1.1%
Scale runs 0% to 100%.
Share of 358 completed flights by arrival against schedule.
Only 11 of 358 completed flights left 15 minutes late or more, too few to say how often the time is made up.
The worst days
Worst days for DL 2221
The latest arrival of the period was on 12 May 2026, 10 hours 20 minutes behind schedule; most of its delay minutes were filed as carrier-caused (crew, maintenance, fuelling, baggage). The same cause led on five of the five worst days.
| Date | Arrived late by | Largest filed cause |
|---|---|---|
| 12 May 2026 | 10 hours 20 minutes | Carrier |
| 1 November 2025 | 2 hours 54 minutes | Carrier |
| 2 December 2025 | 2 hours 47 minutes | Carrier |
| 8 December 2025 | 2 hours 26 minutes | Carrier |
| 20 March 2026 | 1 hour 44 minutes | Carrier |
Delay causes
Why DL 2221 runs late
Carrier accounts for 83% of the 1,610 delay minutes carriers reported here, and the remaining four split what is left.
- 83%Carrier
- 15%National Airspace System
- 1%Extreme weather
- 1%Late-arriving aircraft
The largest share of delay minutes, 83%, falls under carrier control: crew scheduling, maintenance, fuelling, baggage. It accounts for 1,335 of the 1,610 delay minutes reported here. The split is drawn from 1,610 delay minutes reported on DL 2221.
Cancellations sit at 1.92% against a national 1.89%, which is ordinary. Diversions add another 0.00%.
Connections and routes
What a delay on this flight costs
Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 2.0% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.3% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.
The 695 miles between these two airports put this in the middle of the US network, around two and a half to three hours of block time. That is enough cruise to absorb a ten-minute late pushback and not enough to absorb thirty.
Every one of the 365 flights under DL 2221 in the data flew BNA to MSP. The number was not reused on any other city pair, which makes this a clean record of one route.
One caution: this is a thin sample. 365 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.
What to do with this
Booking DL 2221
For a booking, read DL 2221 as 95.3% on time with 1.92% cancelled over 365 flights. Those are rates from the past twelve months, not a forecast for any particular day.
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A flight number here means Delta Air Lines’s own number as it reports to the DOT. How the figures are computed is on the methodology page.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, September 2025 to August 2026. Last updated ; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.